Why is this?......wht is Ted Cruz being marginalized?
You have to ask why Cruz is being marginalized? The media want to take out the decent candidates one at a time. Cruz is their first target.
Ted Cruz has terrorized the Establishment Republicans, without, however, being able to fully mobilize his latent support within the community of T.E.A. party conservatives and libertarians (two different breeds of cat, by the way).
There is no question of Senator Cruz’ acumen and experience as a debater who marshals his arguments, and can speak extemporaneously at length, as demonstrated with his one-man filibuster in September 2013, forcing a vote on certain provisions of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”, has the gumption and moxie to challenge even the most deeply-held assumptions on the part of his rivals, and do it in the face of sharp opposition.
I call it "Phil Donahue Politics". I don't know if you remember his daytime talk show with audience participation (apparently he invented the concept), but he'd walk around the crowd with his foot-long mike and shove it in people's faces, asking them questions regarding the topic of the day. Donahue, being a flaming liberal, was a brutal dictator of a host regarding what people had to say, and if someone betrayed a conservative streak and began straying from the accepted leftist playbook he'd snap the mike away from them mid-sentence and go to someone else.
Today, it's the same way with the liberal media. The only ones who get the privilege of the foot-long mike are the "preferred" candidates.
THEY HATE HIM because:
He’s Hispanic; he went to Princeton and Harvard and was a Debate Champion at both universities (no conservatives are allowed to do that); he’s been lauded by Harvard Professor Dershowitz as the most brilliant Constitutional Scholar he’s ever taught; he’s a Christian, and is against abortion and same-sex marriage; he’s against Amnesty.
He’s for America; for the military; for the space program; he’s pro-life; he supports marriage between a man and a woman; he’s for charter schools; etc., etc., etc.
ANYBODY CARE TO ADD MORE ..????